Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors

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Abstract

Conversations with 23 women professors from 11 nationalities working in academia illustrating the variety of routes to professorship. Majority work in science, technology, engineering and math fields. They discuss origins of interest in academic life, how they took career steps, identified their research field, developed research questions, progressed in academia, PhD research, publications, postdoc experience at home and abroad, teaching and supervision, and dealt with success and setbacks. The factors that enable successful negotiation of career transitions from assistant professorships, the tenure-track, through the tenure process, to a full professorship, and wider leadership experience are discussed. ...